Detach Outlook Preferences. At times Outlook for Mac 2011 Crashes or Hangs at Start up due to corruption issues in Outlook preferences. For fixing this issue, move preferences for the desktop. Close all applications. Select Home from the Go Menu; Open Library from MAC OS X Lion. Open Preferences and move the following files to the desktop. In case few files are missing, move the remaining files as some files do not get created until an Outlook feature is used. I have a user who isn't able to open Outlook 2011 on his iMac. As soon as he opens Outlook 2011 it crashes. All other Microsoft Office applications work fine. He has a iMac 27-inch, Mid 2011 running OS X Lion 10.7.2. This is the crash report that is created, if it's any help. This same Mac was running OS X 10.6 and also had Outlook issues, but. Fixes For When Mail Keeps Crashing on macOS High Sierra. When an Application such as Mail crashes on your MacBook, the chances are that there is something wrong with the preference list files (called.plist files) of the application. This situation is true with all Mac Apps. As a point of info, I support one site with 80 Mac users with Outlook 2011 and an Exchange 2010 server, and by & large, they are all chugging along. HEAVY mail usage throughout every workday. So, no: Outlook for Mac should not be 'crashy' but it can happen with a corrupt database. Make sure your AV software.excludes. Pomfort silverstack for mac. the Outlook database. Quit all applications. Hold down the Option key on the keyboard, and then start Outlook 2011. Note You can also browse to the Database Utility by opening the Application folder and then opening the Microsoft Office 2011 folder. Open the Office folder, and then double-click Microsoft Database Utility.app.
Strange issue here. I have a client who uses Outlook 2011 on a MacBook. He uses an IMAP account and every 7-10 days it tries re-downloading all the emails again.
The mailbox itself will be working absolutely fine, then one day when outlook is opened it randomly says at the bottom that it's downloading all the emails again (think he has around 1500 emails in his inbox).
It usually gets to around 400-450 downloaded, then Outlook hangs and crashes.
The only fix I've found for this was to make it download headers only for all emails (usually this is on but excludes the inbox). When it's set to only download headers for all folders, it doesn't crash, but emails then take an age to view, and they're not patient enough for that
I can't see any reason why Outlook feels the need to try and re-download every single email again, so if this was fixed then I suppose Outlook wouldn't keep crashing.
So far I've tried:
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Re-installing office
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Deleting the profile and then adding it back in
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Moving emails to an Archive (.olm) so that the mailbox is smaller